WordPress Website Design Experts in Chicago

What is WordPress Website Design?

Wordpress Website Development 2WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS) that is currently the most widely used content management platform on the Internet.

With its easy to use administrative control panel, great set of “off-the-shelf” features as well as a wide variety of professionally developed themes, widgets and software plugins available, WordPress is a great option for blogs, local business, corporate and professional websites.

FrontPage Interactive specializes in the design and development of customized WordPress websites for virtually any business type, including local businesses, startups, national franchises, large enterprises and non-profit organizations.


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Why Use WordPress?

Many people think that WordPress is just for blogs – nothing could be further from the truth. WordPress is so much more than just a blogging platform; it’s a fully customizable content management system that is a great option for business and professional website development.

WordPress has become the most popular choice when it comes to selecting a content management platform. WordPress website design is something we do very well. In fact, WordPress has become our CMS of choice, allowing us to create everything from a simple blogs to complex marketing websites. A customized WordPress website is great solution for most small to mid-sized businesses and organizations looking to enhance their online presence.

WordPress and Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization is another reason to consider WordPress over other CMS options. WordPress is one of the best, if not the best, content management systems when it comes to SEO.

Our WordPress development team is trained on best practices to ensure your site is easy to use, edit, manage and maintain. Our team handles full site builds as well as search engine optimization on existing WordPress websites.

WordPress Website Development Process

Wordpress Website DevelopmentThe process of developing a new WordPress website starts with a discovery phase where we work with your organization leadership to gain knowledge about your business, products, services, clients and online conversion goals. From there, we develop the navigation structure, a site map and discuss the technical requirements for your project. After the discovery and architecture phases are complete, our skilled designers begin the process of bringing your new website to life using a combination of artistry, vision and technology.

Lastly, our experienced development team takes all of the hard work done by our designers and visionaries and turns it into reality – a new website. Depending on your specific project requirements, our team may select and install extensions, plugins or third-party tools to enhance the functionality of your new website. In some cases, we will develop custom plugins or software to integrate more robust website functionality and management.

Once your new WordPress website is launched, we can work directly with your team members to provide training and support with navigating your new website.

Top 10 Reasons for Using WordPress to Power Your Company’s Website

  1. Ease of Use – WordPress is easy to use and has an intuitive user interface. If you don’t know HTML, the WordPress content management system makes the process of managing your website relatively easy. You don’t need to understand coding just to post content to your site.
  2. SEO Friendly – The code behind WordPress makes it easy for search engines to read and index a website’s content. In addition, each page, post, and image can have its own meta data (title, description and keywords) and be optimized for specific keywords, allowing for targeted search engine optimization.
  3. Social Media Integration – You can also integrate your social media accounts with a WordPress widget or plugin. Integrating social media into your WordPress website is an easy way for you to automatically update multiple social media platforms with any news, updates or content you publish without having to do the work manually.
  4. Affordable – Unlike some costly website designs that require an extensive amount of difficult coding, Worpress websites can be very cost-effective for business owners because they are generally easier to design, develop, edit and manage.
  5. Integrated Blog – Since WordPress was originally created as a blogging platform, it provides some of the best tools for blogs, which can be quickly and easily integrated into your business website. Having an integrated blog on your website is crucial for driving targeted traffic and making your site more dynamic and interactive.
  6. Mobile Applications – WordPress has mobile responsive code which provides users the ability to view your site on smartphones and other Internet connected mobile devices. WordPress can automatically detect when a site visitor is using a mobile device and will automatically adjust the website appearance for mobile viewing.
  7. Scalable – WordPress websites are very scalable and can grow as your business Grows. You can start our will just a few pages and eventually expand to hundreds or thousands of pages or blog posts without compromising the performance of your site.
  8. Extended Functionality – WordPress acts as the engine for your website. The look, feel and functionality of the site can be customized with the use of themes, widgets and software plugins. There are thousands of themes available for WordPress that allow you to change the design of your website quickly. Plugins are pre-made pieces of software that allow you to extend the functionality of your WordPress site without knowing how to program.
  9. User Management – WordPress allows you to create multiple users within your site, which is ideal if you want to provide employees or other bloggers access to adding content and updates to the site at any time. You have the ability to edit and manage privileges at all times. You can also allow visitors to register on your site to become active contributors, leaving comments or submitting content of their own depending on your submission settings.
  10. Browser Based Control – WordPress is browser-based. This means that you can login from any Internet connected device and manage your site.

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